Unicorn vs. Narwhal — What's the Difference?

The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. The unicorn was mentioned by the ancient Greeks in accounts of natural history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian and Cosmas Indicopleustes.

The narwhal or narwhale (Monodon monoceros) is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia.

A fabled creature symbolic of virginity and usually represented as a horse with a single straight spiral horn projecting from its forehead.

An Arctic whale (Monodon monoceros) having mottled gray or whitish skin and in the male, a long spirally twisted tusk projecting forward from the left side of the head.

(Heraldry) A representation of this beast, having a horse's body, a stag's legs, a lion's tail, and a straight spiral horn growing from its forehead, especially employed as a supporter for the Royal Arms of Great Britain or of Scotland.

Monodon monoceros, an Arctic cetacean that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed canine tooth that projects forward.

Unicorn The constellation Monoceros.

An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk, projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

Something that is greatly desired but difficult or impossible to find

Small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk

(Business) A startup company valued at one billion dollars or more.

A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

(historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ):}} a reem or wild ox.

Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.

A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.

The kamichi, or unicorn bird.

(military) A howitzer.

Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.

A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.

(business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

(finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.

(attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.

(historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.

(sexual slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.

(finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.

Having one horn.

A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; - often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.

Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.

The kamichi; - called also unicorn bird.

A howitzer.

An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead